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Boozing Billikens bus driver strands St. Louis team at St. Bonaventure

Another St. Bonaventure home basketball game, another strange happening in Olean.

Three days after fans storming the court cost St. Bonaventure a win, another odd thing happened at the Reilly Center in Olean on Wednesday. The Saint Louis University basketball team got stranded there.

The Billikens lost 70-55 to the Bonnies on Wednesday night and then got stuck for a couple hours because the team bus was missing. The bus driver, identified as 56-year-old Linda Edmister of Gasport, Niagara County, was pulled over about 90 minutes after the game 40 miles away in Randolph. She was charged with driving a commercial vehicle while intoxicated, according to The Associated Press.

Her blood alcohol content was 0.22 percent, more than five times the limit for commercial drivers, which is 0.04 percent. If it wasn't for the iPad of St. Louis coach Travis Ford, which the former Kentucky guard left on the bus, who knows when the bus and driver would have been located. GPS via the iPad was used to locate bus.

St. Louis's Twitter basketball account tweeted out pictures while waiting at the arena. "Just chilling in the Reilly Center while we try to find our missing bus," the team tweeted, according to the AP report. The Billikens posted a tweet also thanking Bonaventure staff for helping them.

New York State Police Trooper James O'Callaghan said he didn't think Edmister was drunk when she drove the team to the game. Police don't know when or why she left Olean, the AP reported. Edmister was stopped just before 11 p.m., according to police. The game ended about 9:30 p.m.

According to the AP, the Billikens took another bus to Randolph to get their items from their original bus. The team then flew out of an airport in Bradford, Pennsylvania, and arrived in St. Louis around 3 a.m. local time.

The Bonnies had lost on Saturday in Olean in overtime to Virginia Commonwealth, 83-77. They likely would have won the game in regulation after guard Matt Mobley's 3-pointer gave them a 66-65 lead, but a technical foul was assessed to the home team with 0.4 on the clock after fans stormed the court following Mobley's clutch shot.

The official explanation, according to the Atlantic 10, for the "administrative" technical was essentially interference by fans because one apparently took the game ball. Down a point, VCU made a free throw to force OT and then won it. The Bonnies are 15-8 overall and tied for fifth place in the Atlantic 10 with a 7-4 record. They travel to George Washington (12-12, 4-7) on Saturday (4:30 p.m., NBC Sports Network).